Cole Porter

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Cole Porter

June 9, 1891

October 15, 1964

The Early Years

Only Child of...

Samuel Fenwick

Druggist by trade

Shy, unassertive man

Amateur poet, influenced

Cole's rhyme and meter

and.....

Kate Cole

She helped him with

his music, like...

piano,

violin,

and composition.

Cole's Education

Worchester Academy

Not by choice

Valedictorian

Yale University

Fight Songs

Wrote Over 300 Songs

Homosexual Realization

Harvard Law School

1913 - 1914

Conversation with the Dean

Harvard School of Music

Serious Study

Harmony

Counterpoint

Pietro Yon

Paris

1917 - 1928

The Five Reasons Cole Moved to Paris:

Homosexuality

Better training

Making a Name for Himself

Escape Conformity

The Flops

Theory:

French Legion

Friendly, adventageous,

but sexless marriage

December 19, 1919

Magic behind the music

Mutual affairs

November 17, 1883

May 20, 1954

Schola Cantorum

Vincent d'Indy

orchestration

counterpoint

Life of luxury and extravagance

Paris (1928)

Wake Up and Dream (1929)

Anything Goes (1934)

Kiss Me Kate (1948)

Silk Stockings (1954)

Ethel Merman

Anything Goes

Red, Hot, and Blue

Du Barry Was a Lady

Panama Hattie

Something for the Boys

Fred Astaire

Fanny Brice

The Accident

Osteomyelitis: infection of the bone

Geraldine and Josephine

Electric Shock Therapy

34 previous operations

Amputation of right leg

22 shows written

Every Time We Say Good-bye:

Why the God above me who must be in the know

Think so little of me

They allow you to go

Bon Voyage:

And there's no cure like travel

To help you unravel

The worries of living today.

When the poor brain is cracking

There's nothing like packing

A suitcase and sailing away.

Take a run 'round Vienna,

Granada, Ravenna, Sienna

And then a-'round Rome.

Have as high time, a low time,

And in no time

You'll be singing "Home, Sweet Home".

Withstanding Time

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PARIS

Anything Goes

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